Creevey, Thomas

Creevey, Thomas

▪ English politician
born March 1768, Liverpool
died Feb. 5, 1838, London

      English politician and placeman, best remembered as the author of The Creevey Papers, published in 1903 and again in 1905 and consisting partly of Creevey's own journals and partly of correspondence. They give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian era and are characterized by an almost Pepysian outspokenness.

      Allegedly the son of William Creevey, a Liverpool merchant, he is believed by some to have been the illegitimate son of Charles William, 1st Earl of Sefton. He went to Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated as seventh wrangler (1789). He became a student at the Inner Temple, transferred to Gray's Inn (1791), and was called to the bar (1794). He entered Parliament (1802) through the Duke of Norfolk's nomination and married Mrs. Eleanor Ord, a widow with six children and a comfortable income.

      Creevey was a Whig and a follower of Charles James Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle. In 1806, when the brief “All the Talents” ministry was formed, he was given the office of secretary to the Board of Control. In 1830, when next his party came into power, Creevey, who had lost his seat in Parliament, was appointed treasurer of the ordnance; and subsequently Lord Melbourne made him treasurer of Greenwich Hospital (1834). After 1818, when his wife died, he had very slender means of his own.

      Creevey had a shrewd political sense and also an unrivalled capacity for giving pleasure in social life. The Creevey Papers include many of his letters that, as lively and as cheerful as his personality, give a good picture of the late Georgian era and are a useful addition and corrective to The Croker Papers (1884), the collection of diaries and correspondence written by John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) from a Tory point of view. Creevey is also known to have kept a “copious diary” covering 36 years of his life, but it was apparently destroyed sometime after his death by friends fearing exposure of the contents.

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